ChatGPT is continuing to show the cracks in established documentation processes and “gate-keeping” systems… Historically the written word has been used as part of the application process to judge the quality of the applicant(ion) and to dissuade casual applicants by requiring a certain level of effort. Along with the enormous problems around GenAI authored student […]
In a unexpected public demonstration of rare AI expertise by the art world, a recent review by the Guardian art critic opined that a portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II by AI artist Ai-Da “fails to meet the Turing test” (sic) though we are unclear what version of the Turing test he is referring to […]
In conversation this time is well-known finance and digital economy expert, Jennifer Zhu Scott. Jen recently joined the WST Board of Trustees and we are delighted to welcome her. Ian Brown sat down to find out a little more about Jennifer’s (Jen’s) path to Web Science and why she thinks we’ve invented a whole new […]
The recent surge in NFT coverage in tyhe technology and financial press was typified by the story of an early NFT auction in which an investor paid $2.9m for an NFT linked to Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever Tweet on the platform. This, it was claimed, was an example of how new value could […]
The US-based NFT trading platform, Cent, which stunned an unsuspecting public by selling an NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet on Twitter for £2.1 million has recently suspended trading of (most) NFT assets because “people were selling tokens of content that did not belong to them”, with its co-founder Cameron Hejazi admitting this was a […]
Beginning this summer, you might need to upload a selfie and a photo ID to a private company, ID.me, if you want to file your taxes online.Oscar Wong/Moment via Getty Images James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is planning to require citizens to create accounts with a private facial recognition company […]
Asst Prof Jun Han (left) and doctoral student Mr Sriram Sami (right) from NUS Computing with a robot vacuum cleaner, a monitor showing recovered sound waves, and common household items made from materials that can reflect sound. When your robot vacuum cleaner does its work around the house, beware that it could pick up private […]
by Kieron O’Harakmoh@soton.ac.uk 25th Jan, 2021The dust is settling on the chaotic aftermath of the American election, and debate is opening up about free speech: in particular, was Twitter right to deny President Trump, as he then was, access, and was the tech world in general right to round upon far right platforms, notably pushing […]
Apple rolls out new app “packaging” to highlight what apps do with data and howmthey handle user privacy. Click here to read the full article
by Kieron O’Hara It is one of the divisive questions of our times. Is the word ‘data’ singular or plural? Some say “this data is …”, “the data doesn’t tell us …”; others “these data are …”, “the data don’t tell us …”. The singular use, often heard in computer science departments and probably more […]